WTF ?

On 10 Jan 2007, at 14:30, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Sue Spence:
>> This is a FAQ from the dawn of computer science.
>> And we still haven't fixed it so that computers work the way
> everyone expects,
> instead focussing all our energies on trying to fix the
> expectations. Bloody
> typical, really. Automatic casting to rationals wouldn't be *that*
> hard.
Like Ruby[1], Lisp, Pop-11...
Adrian
[1] Okay - you have to ask it to first